Thursday, May 31, 2012

A
Supreme Court minus impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona will take up
the cases ques-tioning the allegedly anomalous multibillion-peso
contract for supposedly defective vote counting machines to be used in
next year’s elections.

Speaking to reporters, acting spokesman Ma.
Victoria Gleoresty Guerra announced that “the court has resolved to
place in the agenda of June 13, 2012 the Comelec-PCOS (Commission on
Elections-Precinct Count Optical Scan) machines case where it will be
put to a vote.”

The SC is-sued last April 24 a temporary
restraining order (TRO) enjoining Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM from
proceeding with the contract..... MORE